New York - The World Health Organization launched on Monday a programme to save 5.3 million children from dying of pneumonia by 2015, but the cumulative bill amounts to a whopping 39 billion dollars for a five-year period...
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Vivendi (NYSE: VIV - News) may not be able be able to agree a price to offload its 20 percent stake in the NBCU JV—but at home, the French multimedia group has no doubts about plans to grow its domestic TV empire. On Monday the...
BANGKOK, Nov 24 (Asia Media Forum/IPS) - Elections are always a period of intense coverage by the Thai media. The sheer surfeit of stories on candidates of every political stripe and selected issues is guaranteed to raise media...
By Douglas Quenqua, ClickZ, Nov 24, 2009 Six months after Twitter, Microsoft and Federated Media teamed up to launch ExecTweets, a service that streams business tweets from a handpicked collection of executives, the group is...
FRANKFURT, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Crisis-rocked German state-backed lender WestLB faced a down-to-the wire search for funds to help unload toxic assets as its savings bank owners balk at more support, fuelling talk of consolidation.